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Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Feb 23 16:59:08 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 10:53 -0600, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
>> I'm just now writing the naming standards for rpm, and there are already
>> two "do not do XXX" items in your package. (Not your fault, I can't
>> write these standards fast enough to keep up with new packages)
>>
>> - Don't use underscores in the rpm name. Use - as a delimiter.
>
>pam_ccreds-1-4.ppc.rpm
>pam_ccreds-1-4.ppc64.rpm
>pam_krb5-2.1.2-1.ppc.rpm
>pam_krb5-2.1.2-1.ppc64.rpm
>pam_passwdqc-0.7.5-2.ppc.rpm
>pam_passwdqc-0.7.5-2.ppc64.rpm
>pam_smb-1.1.7-5.ppc.rpm
>pam_smb-1.1.7-5.ppc64.rpm
>
>Will these core packages be renamed?  This convention has been used by Red
>Hat's PAM module packages for as long as I can remember.  There are also
>many more examples of the '_' character in Fedora Core.

SDL does the same thing. I'm writing exceptions to the rule in the
standards documentation.

~spot
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